I Could Not Become An American Citizen.

You Must Live Life In Its Very Elementary Forms. The Mexicans Have A Very Nice Word For It: Pura Vida. It Doesn't Mean Just Purity Of Life, But The Raw, Stark-naked Quality Of Life. And That's What Makes Young People More Into A Filmmaker Than Academia.

I Have Learned A Lot Through Defeats, And, Until Today, It's - I'm Still Haunted By Defeats, And They Do Happen. Sometimes, A Film Of Mine Is Rejected. And How Do You Deal With It? And You Have To Learn How To Deal With It And Survive Anyway.

I Like To Direct Landscapes Just As I Like To Direct Actors And Animals.

Film Is Not The Art Of Scholars, But Of Illiterates.

I Don't See Poetry As Something That Has To Do With Too Much Emotion Anyway. It Has To Do With Language.